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KT Selects Solbox’s Cloud Storage Acceleration Solutions for Ucloud Caching
Date :
2014-01-16
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Implementing Solbox’s Service Contents Router and Cloud Storage Acceleration
and launching KT’s Ucloud Caching Service
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Improving the speed and performance of cloud storage through the caching and
load balancing of hot content
Seoul, Korea – January
16th, 2014 – Solbox (CEO
Taeha Park, www.solbox.com/eng), a leading CDN (Content Delivery Network) and
cloud software provider, announced that it has supplied acceleration solutions
to increase the performance and speed of cloud storage to KT’s Ucloud Caching
service.
With demand for online content rising
exponentially, the server industry is turning more and more to cloud storage as
a way to efficiently deliver content. However, cloud storage has limitation in
delivering hot content saddled with mass requests as cloud storage earns its
marks mainly by its ability to store an unlimited amount of data, rather than
for speedy delivery of content. Therefore, when certain hot content is
overburdened with requests, cloud storage may experience an overload of traffic
and a subsequent slowdown in service speed.
KT has introduced Ucloud Caching to ensure speed and performance for its
Ucloud Storage customers through Solbox’s Service Contents Router and Cloud
Storage Acceleration. The Ucloud Caching, as a supplementary service to Ucloud
Storage, efficiently handles the processing of hot content within the cloud storage
and guarantees a fast rate of service. It
also supports
the quick transmission of streaming and downloadable content, and works well
for delivery videos, games, and other large files.
Solbox’s Cloud Storage Acceleration, built
onto KT Ucloud Caching, diminishes the loads placed on storage
nodes by supporting dynamic block-level caching between users on the cloud
storage.
The Service
Contents Router helps out by intelligently distributing millions of pieces of content from the clouds
storage to cache servers while avoiding redundant content by multiple cache
servers. This solution of Solbox ensures consistent service with no slowdowns
as it responds flexibly to the high-demand for hot content by automatically adding
cache nodes. The Cloud Storage Acceleration supports OpenStack
Swift and Amazon S3, standards within the public cloud service industry, and
brings these advantages to KT Ucloud Caching.
“The release of the KT Ucloud Caching is a prime example showing that cloud
storage values not only content basic function as a content repository but the
speed and performance of its delivery.” said Taeha Park, CEO of Solbox. “KT has chosen
to combine with Solbox technology as a step to swiftly respond to the needs of
this market and play a leading role within it. By incorporating Solbox’s cloud
storage acceleration technology, we have achieved cost saving and
stability of Ucloud Storage for its users.”
About Solbox
Solbox, a leading CDN and cloud software
provider in Korea, offers an integrated software platform for telecom companies
to implement large-scale CDN and cloud services. Solbox’s platform contains
core components including: inventory management, storage virtualization, load
balancing, monitoring and content delivery applications. Solbox provides joint
services with KT and LGU+, the two of big three telecom companies in Korea.
More information can be found at www.solbox.com.
About KT
KT, a leading mobile ICT company in Korea,
provides a range of communication services including wire, wireless phone
services, high-speed internet services, voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP),
Internet protocol television (IPTV), and wireless broadband (WiBro) services.
KT has successfully pursued new growth opportunities and obtained strong market
positions in each of our principal lines of business in particular such as
nationwide LTE services, mobile payment and credit card services, mobile GPS,
satellite service, cloud computing services, smart grid, and smart city
development.
Press contact
Solbox
Jung Hwang
+82 2 2182 3663